The principle of charity ranks top of the list.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or of a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things;
Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away;
For we know in part, and we prophecy in part;
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a woman, I put away childish things.
For now, we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also, I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
* I Corinthians 13
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